Kudos to Ms. Quart for her rejection of neuroscience's explanations regarding the brain. One such rejection was “Republicans are genetically different from -- and, many readers deduced, lesser to -- Democrats” from Chris Mooney’s book The Republican Brain.

I earlier read the concept that Republicans are more Neolithic and less cultured. My understanding of the neuroscience is that in earlier times, future Republicans went out, hunted and brought back the food for the cooking fire, while their counterparts, future Democrats and lawyers, sat around the cooking fire contemplating their navels and discussing the cooking fire's effect on global warming.